17 Bible Verses about Abuse From a Spouse

the husbands! love your wives, and be not bitter with them;

Jehovah the righteous doth try. And the wicked and the lover of violence, Hath His soul hated,

be mindful of those in bonds, as having been bound with them, of those maltreated, as also yourselves being in the body;

And, if the unbelieving doth separate himself -- let him separate himself: the brother or the sister is not under servitude in such cases, and in peace hath God called us;

And this know thou, that in the last days there shall come perilous times, for men shall be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, evil-speakers, to parents disobedient, unthankful, unkind, without natural affection, implacable, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, not lovers of those who are good,read more.
traitors, heady, lofty, lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God, having a form of piety, and its power having denied; and from these be turning away, for of these there are those coming into the houses and leading captive the silly women, laden with sins, led away with desires manifold, always learning, and never to a knowledge of truth able to come, and, even as Jannes and Jambres stood against Moses, so also these do stand against the truth, men corrupted in mind, disapproved concerning the faith;

The wives! to your own husbands subject yourselves, as to the Lord,

therefore doth a man leave his father and his mother, and hath cleaved unto his wife, and they have become one flesh.

For I hate sending away, said Jehovah, God of Israel, And He who hath covered violence with his clothing, said Jehovah of Hosts, And ye have been watchful over your spirit, And ye do not deal treacherously.

The husbands! love your own wives, as also the Christ did love the assembly, and did give himself for it,

what therefore God did join together, let not man put asunder.'

The husbands! love your own wives, as also the Christ did love the assembly, and did give himself for it, that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it with the bathing of the water in the saying, that he might present it to himself the assembly in glory, not having spot or wrinkle, or any of such things, but that it may be holy and unblemished;read more.
so ought the husbands to love their own wives as their own bodies: he who is loving his own wife -- himself he doth love; for no one ever his own flesh did hate, but doth nourish and cherish it, as also the Lord -- the assembly,

Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil-speaking, be put away from you, with all malice,

and become one to another kind, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, according as also God in Christ did forgive you.

If possible -- so far as in you -- with all men being in peace;

but I -- I say to you, that whoever may put away his wife, save for the matter of whoredom, doth make her to commit adultery; and whoever may marry her who hath been put away doth commit adultery.

If from delivering those taken to death, And those slipping to the slaughter -- thou keepest back.

The husbands, in like manner, dwelling with them, according to knowledge, as to a weaker vessel -- to the wife -- imparting honour, as also being heirs together of the grace of life, that your prayers be not hindered.